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...INTERVIEW WITH a mime? Sounds contradictory. But in fact David Fechtor is one of the more verbal people I've met around here...
Fechtor, now a freshman at Harvard, became interested in mime through drama during his sophomore year of high school. He and a drama teacher coached each other through mime classes. "Neither of us knew anything about mime--maybe we'd seen Marcel Marceau on television for ten minutes once. So I just watched and told him how I looked, and he watched me and told me how I looked, and that's how we learned," says Fechtor...
...summer after his junior year, Fechtor studied under mime artist Jewel Walker at the Carnegie-Mellon School of Drama. Last spring he spent a trimester studying in France with Etienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau's teacher. The 76-year-old Decroux was a strict instructor "For the entire first month I was there he didn't speak to me," says Fechtor. "He just sort of eyed me critically. The second month he began to criticize my work." Like Fechtor, who hopes to go into creative writing or philosophy, Decroux has a strong interest in language--he used to be an orator...
HOLMES HALL, Room for One Woman, by S.J. Bergman, March 1-3, 7:30, free. LOEB MAINSTAGE. Mime and Pantomime by David A. Fechtor '76, March 5, 6, 8 p.m., free. no tickets needed...
...master of movement within the frame, yet Limelight is a static film. In 1931, Chaplin wrote, "The sudden arrival of dialogue in motion pictures is causing many of our actors to forget the elementals of the art of acting." He made both City Lights and Modern Times out of mime and motion in the 30's, when everyone else was making talking pictures, and he later made two films where dialogue was carefully integrated with movement. But in Limelight his fluid style dies. The comedian's act is stationary; even at a climax, when Claire Bloom finds she can walk...